Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1887-04-29
MOTHER AND SON SHOT.
BOTH ARE FATALLY FOUNDED.
A MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR NEAR HA.
GERSTOWN--A YOUNGER SON
HELD ON sUsPICION-A TERRI.
BILE ATTEMPT AT DOUBLE MUIR.
DER-ALL THE DETAILS.
[speolaI to the Tho American.

BILE ATTEMPT AT DOUBLE MUIR.
DER-ALL THE DETAILS.
Especial to the The Americana
HAGERsTOWN, April 24.-One of
the most mysterious and Inexplica-
BILE crimes ever perpetrated in this
county was committed last night
about half.past eleven in the small
one and a half.story brick dwelling
house of Mrs. Catherine Cump, 10.
Gated on the Middlebnrg pike, about
three miles north of this place. The
house is occupied by Mrs. Cump,
who is in her fifty.hrst year, and
her invalid SOD, Carlyle, who is
about twenty-five years of age
Emanuel Cump, another son, aged
twenty, is employed as a farm hand
by Mr.. Martin Middlekauff, who re.
sides in the vicinity. Emanuel fire..
quently spent his Sundays at home,
and at nine o'clock last night he
came to his mothers with the in.
tention of remaining until Monday.
The mother and her two SONS stayed
up until shortly after ten o'clock,
when the lights were extinguished
and they retired. All three occu-
pied the same room, which is To-
Gated in the front part of the house.
The room is about eight by fifteen
feet. The brothers slept in large
double bed, the head of which was
to the lett of the door entering from
the dlning.room. At the foot Of
the larger bed was a trundle-bed,
the foot ofwhich was placed against
the other bed. The trundle- bed was
occupied by Mrs. Crump. Both
beds stood lengthwise in the small
room. An old fashioned bureau oc-
cupied a corner a short distance
from Mrs. Cump's bed. Carlyle re-
tired first and his mother shortly
afterwards. The younger brother
left the house for a few minutes,
and when he returned be entered
the bedroom. Beginning to I'M
dress, he laid his revolver on the
floor. His mother hearing him
place the revolver on the floor,
called out: "Put that old thing be.
hind the box on the bureau. If !
get up to attend your brother, I
might stumble over it and hurt
somebody" He then laid it near a
corner of the bureau and got into
bed behind his brother, who was
already asleep. Mrs. Cump short.
ly afterwards fell into a doze, from
which she was awakened by
THE REPORT OF A PISTOL,
and at the same moment felt a
stinging sensation on her head
She sh1eked cut, and saw bending
over her some one whom she was IN.
able to recognize. The first shot
was instantly followed by a second,
when she lost all consciousness
The younger brother is the only
one who can explain what followed
the second shot. He says that he
was awakened by the shots, and
springing over bis brother started
for the dining-room, Immediately in
the rear. As he was hurrying
through the door his brother Car.
lyle grabbed him by both shoulders
from behind, and cried out
"Man, man; don't shoot me-
Emanuel said 4: "im not shoot
ing; it's somebody else
Carlyle then hurled him to the
lett against a safe, which stood in
the diDing.room. The blinds were
down, and the room was dark, yet
Emanuel insists that he recognized
THE FORMS OF TWO WHITE MEN
in light.colored clothing, who stood
at a distance of about eight feet
against the door leading into the
porch. Immediately there was a
fash and a report, and Carlyle
dropped to the floor with bullet
in his brain. How the men escaped
the younger brother is unable to
state, as be heard no doors open.
Mrs. Cump had in the meantime
regained consciousness, and, 81.
though seriously wounded, helped
to carry her oldest sou back to his
bed. While assisting her son to
bed she became so exhausted from
loss of blood that she fell to the
floor three times. Assistance was
Immediately summoned by Eman-
uel. Upon examination, it was
discovered that three bullets had
struck Mrs. Cump. One had hit the
top of her head and tlattened
against the skull. The second
shot, after penetrating the chin,
had lodged in her throat, and the
third ball had passed through her
right cheek, grazed her neck, and
buried itself in her shoulder. The
first ball fractured the skull, and is
the only one that has been extract
ed. Her nightcap, hair and pillow
we're badly singed, showing that
the first shot was fred close to her
head. Her son was shot about two
inches above the right temple, and
the course of the ball was inward
and forward. DR.. Scott probed
four inches for the ball, but was un-
able to find it. Mrs. Cump Is con-
scious, but is in great agony from
her wounds. Carlyle has been un-
conscious since the shooting, and
there is no hope of his recovery
The revolver used was six cham
Der SO caliber bulldog, and was the
same weapon which Emanuel placed
on the bureau shortly before he re-
tired. The revolver was found in
the dining.room near where Car.
lyle had fallen.
| FIVE SHUTS lad BEEN FIRED
Three had been emptied into Mrs.
Cump, one into Carlyle, and the fifth
struck the wall in the dining.room.
The sixth chamber was rusty, and
showed that it bad not been used
for some time.
Who the asSailant was is a mys-
terry. Murder was his only mission,
because nothing was stolen from
the house. The younger brother
has fallen under the terrible sus-
picion Of being the guilty party,
and is now in custody. 1t is
charged that his statements con-
corning the occurrence have been
contradIcted by others and by him.
self. Those, however, who have
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